weekly thoughts on prayer:10.01.2009
TRANSFORMATION
My little children, for whom I labour in birth again until Christ is formed in you. Galatians 4:19
No body is good except they are made so by someone beyond them that is God. Your body can be changed into a sickness free body. Your mind can become crystal clear, your emotions buoyant and your will strong and conformed to God’s will. What ever Jesus was you can be. He represents the template of our transformation.
The place of prayer is the crucible of our transformation. The fire of God’s presence is effective in drilling the truth we learn in God’s word into our psyche.
You don’t have to remain the same in your level of thinking, of feeling, of living and of being. The transformation factor in the place of prayer is what you need. If you don’t need it, Christ would not have said men ought always to pray and not to faint.
You can do more and be more, but it is all hinged on your exposure to the transforming nature of God’s presence. Don’t let up in your prayer; go into prayer with the expectation of being transformed. Some other people can pray only to get something, some as a religious observance, while others could pray to sooth their conscience, but you must pray with the priority of being transformed in your mind.
If that is so, you will not be in the camp of those who say, “It is not how long you pray that matters”. You will pray for long because you know every minute counts in the journey of transformation. And because your placement in heaven will be according to how much you have been transformed into the image of Jesus Christ the son of God.
Further reading: Luke 18:19, Matthew 12:33 and 1 Corinthians 14: 18.
No body is good except they are made so by someone beyond them that is God. Your body can be changed into a sickness free body. Your mind can become crystal clear, your emotions buoyant and your will strong and conformed to God’s will. What ever Jesus was you can be. He represents the template of our transformation.
The place of prayer is the crucible of our transformation. The fire of God’s presence is effective in drilling the truth we learn in God’s word into our psyche.
You don’t have to remain the same in your level of thinking, of feeling, of living and of being. The transformation factor in the place of prayer is what you need. If you don’t need it, Christ would not have said men ought always to pray and not to faint.
You can do more and be more, but it is all hinged on your exposure to the transforming nature of God’s presence. Don’t let up in your prayer; go into prayer with the expectation of being transformed. Some other people can pray only to get something, some as a religious observance, while others could pray to sooth their conscience, but you must pray with the priority of being transformed in your mind.
If that is so, you will not be in the camp of those who say, “It is not how long you pray that matters”. You will pray for long because you know every minute counts in the journey of transformation. And because your placement in heaven will be according to how much you have been transformed into the image of Jesus Christ the son of God.
Further reading: Luke 18:19, Matthew 12:33 and 1 Corinthians 14: 18.